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Moral Hazard: Wie Macht, Geld & Moral aus dem Westen den Iran beeinflussen.

Wir leben in einer heterogenen Welt. Die Erde ist Heimat von verschiedensten Nationen und Kulturen. Dennoch werden alle Staaten durch zwei gemeinsame Strukturen miteinander verbunden: Macht und Geld. Jede Zielsetzung von Staaten richtet sich nach einer Mehrung dieser beiden Institutionen. Das Problem dabei ist, dass beide Faktoren relativ sind. Der einzige Weg die Macht oder...

Will there be a war between Iran and Israel?

Yesterday, Iran attacked Israel by launching the biggest drone strike by a nation on another nation in the history of this military invention. It was also the first direct military action taken against Israel in several decades. The drone strike was a retaliatory act as a response to the attack on April 1st on an...

Russia’s Options Before the War in Ukraine

“War is nothing but the continuation of policy with other means”. This famous quote by General Clausewitz is one of the most important quotes in the history of political and military science. He accurately defines war as a tool of policymaking and, therefore, as a contextually embedded form of coordinated behaviour at the societal level....

Emotions in Politics

Political science is a beautiful field of science. Although it does not always receive recognition from the broader public for being a highly complex and essential discipline, political science can be seen as the crossroads of many academic streams. While maths, biology, physics, sociology, economics, anthropology and many other scientific realms are viewed within their...

Palestine Will Not Survive: A Commentary

If one would make an effort to compare news sources on the various clashes between Jews and Arabs on their mutually claimed home soil, we would quickly come to the understanding that the developments between those two parties are merely recurring routine events. First, there is an information shortage on the first strikes. Then mutual...

The Most Dangerous Side of Racism

Racism can be described as discriminatory behaviour towards people based on their ethnicity. Though it existed for a long time as a behavioural trait, the concept itself is not as old as one might think, dating back roughly 300 years. Leaving the etymological discussion aside, the concept’s prominence as an influential part of popular discourse...